{"id":1685,"date":"2011-01-17T00:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T04:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2011-01-17T00:29:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T04:29:54","slug":"why-i-love-hifi-or-the-absurdity-of-hifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/why-i-love-hifi-or-the-absurdity-of-hifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I love HiFi&#8230; or, the absurdity of HiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really I love what HiFi means because I love how music sounds. Simple as that. But there&#8217;s also sometimes the unabashed absurdity of it all. Take for instance, some photos of products from the recent Consumer Electronics Show.<\/p>\n<p>Room filling speakers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bigg'uns.\" src=\"http:\/\/stereophile.com\/images\/011311Silbatone-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>400lb, 1500watt, $90,000 amp (times two):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"yikes\" src=\"http:\/\/stereophile.com\/images\/011311Boulder-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a diamond-diaphragm supertweeter that fires upward at a Golden-Ratio\u2013proportioned Swarovsky crystal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"huh.\" src=\"http:\/\/stereophile.com\/images\/011311Trenner2-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Stereophile.com for the photos. Crazy stuff. I&#8217;m going to go listen to some music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really I love what HiFi means because I love how music sounds. Simple as that. But there&#8217;s also sometimes the unabashed absurdity of it all. Take for instance, some photos of products from the recent Consumer Electronics Show.<br \/>\nRoom filling speakers:<\/p>\n<p>400lb, 1500watt, $90,000 amp (times two):<\/p>\n<p>And a diamond-diaphragm supertweeter that fires upward at a Golden-Ratio\u2013proportioned Swarovsky [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-rb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}